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Are we teaching AI to destroy humanity?
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this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
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I think the trope is popular and guarantees views/clicks, so people overuse it. Not only is AI unable to destroy humanity, it also has no reason to, and many reasons to ensure our survival, even assuming it'd somehow gains consciousness.
The current AI does have no way of destroying humanity, because it is made to do only one thing right. We haven't yet made a general AI.
The whole "AI will destroy us" thing is certainly blown out of proportion and fueled by themes like Skynet. It having a reason to let us live doesn't guarantee freedom though. A rogue AI could still just enslave us or use us as energy sources (which is dumb and copied from The Matrix).
Yeah, it doesn't make sense. If we are to die to AI one day, it's more likely due to a bug or an oversight, kinda like humans cause the extinction of many other species on this planet -- which is still quite the stretch.
AI that gains consciousness is as real as zombies